“Human beings, individually and collectively, become human by making commitments, by making promises. The human being…is the promise-making, promise-keeping, promise-breaking, promise-renewing creature.”
–Rev. James Luther Adams

“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
–Moses

“In order to ‘hold fast’ to something, one must allow oneself to be held to something. That commitment may be one of the hardest things to practice in a world of so much choice.”
–Sheena Iyengar

PRAYER & MEDITATION

READINGS: ANCIENT & MODERN
From the Book of Genesis 9:12-15
From Dorothy Day

“The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of the sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy – when properly aged.”
–Hubert H. Humphrey

“The faith a movement proclaims doesn’t count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.”
–Umberto Eco